Apple Officially Confirms iPad 2 Launches in 25 Countries on Friday

[Bwinski]

25 Country launch???

Sure would be nice to know that the ones I ordered on US announce date at 7:00 am would ship before the ones bound for Alice Springs, Australia but I understand the dilemma... It is a shorter shipment distance than to my place in Chicago.... hummm...

 

[Twizz91]

Pricing & Availability
iPad 2 with Wi-Fi will be available in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and Ireland on March 25 for a suggested retail price of €479.00 inc VAT (€395.87 ex VAT) for the 16GB model, €579.00 inc VAT (€478.51 ex VAT) for the 32GB model, €679.00 inc VAT (€561.16 ex VAT) for the 64GB model. iPad 2 with Wi-Fi + 3G will be available for a suggested retail price of €599.00 inc VAT (€495.04 ex VAT) for the 16GB model, €699.00 inc VAT (€577.69 ex VAT) for the 32GB model and €799.00 inc VAT (€660.33 ex VAT) for the 64GB model. iPad 2 will be available in Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and additional countries in April, and in many more countries around the world in the coming months. Further international availability and pricing will be announced at a later date.

iMovie and GarageBand for iPad apps are available for €3.99 each from the App Store on iPad or www.itunes.com/appstore. The Smart Cover is available in a range of colours in vibrant polyurethane for €39.00 inc VAT or rich leather for €69.00 inc VAT.


Nice, prices in euros are confirmed (got it from the irish site)

 

[greytmom]

Argh, I meant to type 5pm, in reference to the bricks-and-mortar availability locally.

What Apple Canada does about their online launch, you'll have to find out from Apple Canada. I assume it would be similar to the U.S. web launch at 1am PT/4pm ET.

<snort> Good backpedal.

Also enjoyed the 1am Pacific to 4pm Eastern conversion.

Fine family entertainment!

 

[mimeArtist]

To all the Americans complaining; you're lucky that you didn't even have to wait til the 25th of March like a lot of other people, but you blew it, and ordered too late. Deal with it.

 

[greytmom]

I ordered mine at 4:39 AM on Friday March 11. My Ipad just got to Anchorage and is suppose to be in Charlotte NC on Wednesday. The way this is going people in other countries might get theirs before I get mine

It may make it. My MBP made it from Anchorage to Tampa in two days.

 

[greytmom]

Japan had been set to see the iPad 2 debut with the first wave of international launches

Ouch.

 

[snakelda]

Let the hoarding begin!

 

[DrRadon]

I am always amazed how fast americans can turn selfish and ignorant. Your not the "Herrenrasse" you know? Your not better than us. Deal with it...

 

[Yebot]

I am always amazed how fast americans can turn selfish and ignorant. Your not the "Herrenrasse" you know? Your not better than us. Deal with it...

We don't think we're better. Some of us have trouble being patient. The whole thing really is laughable.

iPad 2: Designed by Apple in California.

 

[DrRadon]

We don't think we're better. Some of us have trouble being patient. The whole thing really is laughable.

iPad 2: Designed by Apple in California.

Yeah, by an International team lead by an English Person using parts build and Designed in Japan and China.

I don´t realy care much about cry babyissem, but wen it starts having racist undertones... it´s a state of mind putting these in what "you" write, more than just impatiance.

 

[mickbab]

I've just put together this summary table for anyone who is interested in all the international pricing.

If anyone has information on the missing prices, please help me out!

All values are in local currencies.

Enjoy.

 

[cvaldes]

<snort> Good backpedal.

Also enjoyed the 1am Pacific to 4pm Eastern conversion.

Fine family entertainment!

I see your family is easily amused. You should feel lucky.

The spell checking function doesn't work on sane timezone conversions.

 

[AndrewW]

Imagine if the shoe was on the other foot. Sure you are happy because you are getting what you want. What if Apple announced today "Due to enormous demand of the iPad 2 a delay of the international launch is necessary. Instead of releasing our stash of iPad 2's internationally, we will instead use them to fulfill all the online orders from 10 days ago, and reward all the people that line up EVERY SINGLE DAY to get an iPad 2. Once we are finally starting to meet demand we will expand to further markets"

What, you mean like they did with the iPad 1?

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/apple-delays-ipad--release-20100415-sefz.html

 

[Meandmunch]

Call me a selfish but I ordered mine around 11:00 am launch day. It's the earliest I could. My white 3G 32 GB Verizon iPad will not arrive until April 6th. I find it slightly disingenuous all theses other markets are getting it before someone like myself who ordered day one. My iPad is sitting in a warehouse somewhere waiting to be sold in another country.

To add insult to injury my local Target, Walmart and Best Buy have and have had stocks of WiFi models sitting on the shelves since day one. Where is the bottle neck!!!!!!

 

[shandyman]

Call me a selfish but I ordered mine around 11:00 am launch day. It's the earliest I could. My white 3G 32 GB Verizon iPad will not arrive until April 6th. I find it slightly disingenuous all theses other markets are getting it before someone like myself who ordered day one. My iPad is sitting in a warehouse somewhere waiting to be sold in another country.

To add insult to injury my local Target, Walmart and Best Buy have and have had stocks of WiFi models sitting on the shelves since day one. Where is the bottle neck!!!!!!

yes but the international markets share of the iPads were allocated previously. you can't just take existing iPads from the UK or wherever to fulfil the US demand. for starters they're all packaged up with our respective plugs and other packaging. so it's not "your iPad". Apple clearly allocate their production in a share between the markets. they're international, deal with it. you americans with your self-entitlement crap is hilarious....

we were promised 25th March by Steve Jobs, we've waited patiently for our turn. and when our stocks run out we will complain, but we won't moan when the next wave of internationals get theirs whilst we're still waiting cos we're not dicks.

 

[Adidas Addict]

My white 3G 32 GB Verizon iPad will not arrive until April 6th. I find it slightly disingenuous all theses other markets are getting it before someone like myself who ordered day one. My iPad is sitting in a warehouse somewhere waiting to be sold in another country.

I doubt that very much, what with Verizon being one of them oddball networks that share no specs with any other network worldwide.

 

[Pontavignon]

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Perhaps if Apple started all nations at the same time poor old Pavel would not have been at such a disadvantage. Not practical though. Perhaps a random selection of which nation gets to be the launch pad would be fair.

 

[unlinked]

I doubt that very much, what with Verizon being one of them oddball networks that share no specs with any other network worldwide.

On Friday I'm going to buy his iPad and blend it. No good for anything else. Not really sure why Apple made thousands of CDMA iPads and sent them to Ireland.

 

[28monkeys]

Wait rather than spend extra $500 for an overpriced ipad2!

 

[AndrewW]

Call me a selfish but I ordered mine around 11:00 am launch day. It's the earliest I could. My white 3G 32 GB Verizon iPad will not arrive until April 6th. I find it slightly disingenuous all theses other markets are getting it before someone like myself who ordered day one. My iPad is sitting in a warehouse somewhere waiting to be sold in another country.

Wow. Just wow.

"Your" iPad?

Of all the selfish posts on this issue, this has to be the most selfish.

Meanwhile, more than 25 countries sit back and wait patiently while millions of iPads are sold to US customers weeks before we even have the opportunity to buy one.

 

[revelated]

Just waiting for the obligatory "Hitler hears about the forthcoming iPad 2" video.

 

[iKrl]

I've just put together this summary table for anyone who is interested in all the international pricing.

If anyone has information on the missing prices, please help me out!

All values are in local currencies.

Enjoy.

Nice of you to put that table together, I hate it that Apple didn't release pricing for certain countries. Mexico has seen the peso get stronger against the dollar and therefore I believe they will change the price here.

 

[Apple Corps]

I am always amazed how fast americans can turn selfish and ignorant. Your not the "Herrenrasse" you know? Your not better than us. Deal with it...

Sounds to me that you are pretty "racist" and painting with a very very broad biased brush when you proclaim "...how fast Americans...".

Perhaps you should reflect on your biases.

 

[JeffLebowski41]

Call me a selfish but I ordered mine around 11:00 am launch day. It's the earliest I could. My white 3G 32 GB Verizon iPad will not arrive until April 6th. I find it slightly disingenuous all theses other markets are getting it before someone like myself who ordered day one. My iPad is sitting in a warehouse somewhere waiting to be sold in another country.

To add insult to injury my local Target, Walmart and Best Buy have and have had stocks of WiFi models sitting on the shelves since day one. Where is the bottle neck!!!!!!

You people act like several millions of iPads are just waiting to flood these other countries. Supplies will be limited and there's going to be people waiting elsewhere just like you. Get over it. Not to mention, if your local stores had so much stock as you say, you were certainly free to go get one and cancel your apple order. People found 3G models as well.

 

[zama36]

To all those in the countries the iPad2 is launching on the 3/25

I seriously doubt that you understand the situation of the launch here in the US.

Online Sales - Complete disaster.
Within less than 24 hours, availability went from 1-3 days, to 1-3 weeks. Then in four days it went to 4-5 weeks. Orders that were processed almost immediately after the 1AM start of sales have been cancelled without explanation. Basically, Apple Customer Support has been saying to us exactly what you Brits are now saying to us Americans, "Sod off. Get to the back of the line."

Apple Store Retail Sales - Complete disaster.
People that waited in line on launch day saw numerous individuals walking out with 6-10 units, 4-8 more than the Apple Store policy (can we say GRAY MARKET?), while they went home empty handed, my co-worker included. Almost two weeks after the initial launch, there are daily mini-launches with people lining up anywhere from 4-5 hours prior to the potential start of sales at 9am. Last week Apple Retail was telling customers whether or not stock would be available; this week nothing. I have even had one Apple Retail salesclerk tell me over the phone that her store hadn't received any stock since launch which I know for a fact is BS considering I have waited in two of those mini-launch lines.

Retail Partners - Complete disaster.
Target - Stock non-existent. Since launch my local Target has receive one small shipment which sold out in an hour of the store's opening (Target receives all of its stock after the store closes at night.) Target near my office, no shipments.
Best Buy - Pre-orders have been stopped simply because Best Buy hasn't been receiving the amount of stock that they expected. Apple like most other consumer electronics companies have sales reps dealing with large accounts like Best Buy. Considering the fact that Best Buy was taking pre-orders and have since stopped nationwide says that some communication from Apple has changed.
Walmart - Zero shipments at my local store since launch.
Sam's Club - 10 stores out of 608 nationwide received stock at launch. Haven't heard but doubt that they received any since.
Local Specialty Apple Stores - These guys have been around prior to Apple's retail presence. They have a direct line into Cupertino. They usually have stock of new Macs, iPhones and iPads on launch day. They received stock on day one like they did with the iPad 1, started taking pre-orders with a cash deposit like Best Buy then stopped since they weren't receiving stock like Best Buy.

This can really only mean two things and it really depends on the status of the international launches, what it is. If within two weeks of 3/25, people are still lining up outside of stores worldwide and retail partners aren't taking pre-orders, there is more than likely a huge supply constraint happening. If not, then there is more than likely a Cupertino Business Analyst or team of analysts looking for a new job(s) because he/she/they totally screwed up the estimated demands numbers. Personally I bet it is a combination of the two since Apple rarely screws up this bad since I've been watching product launches.

Either way, I'm getting nervous about holding on to my Apple stock. I'm betting that this launch is going to expose a gapping hole in Apple's supply chain and that institutional investors will become leery of the holding onto its stock, especially considering they had to call Jobs in to comment on the today's press release. Why didn't they start to get investors used to hearing from Cook?

Finally, I have given up looking for an iPad 2 and am now considering an iPad 1 based on what I'm going to be doing with it and considering Apple is finally taking into consideration the fact that the value proposition of an iPad 1 with only $100 off sucks, but with $200 off it's looking better.